- All Writing Lab workshops are free and open to Bellevue College students, faculty, and staff.
- Workshops are 50 minutes long.
- No registration is necessary, just show up.
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Spring Quarter 2013 Workshops
For older workshops, see the archive.
Punctuation: A Cast of Characters
Tuesday, April 23
Room D-240H
Time: 2:30PM to 3:20PM
Marshall Period, the sentence sheriff, arrests sentences
when they're finished with your subject.
Officer Comma
directs clause traffic in busy paragraphs.
And the broad-shouldered
security guard-for-hire, Square Brackets,
makes sure delicate changes can get through a rough-and-tumble quotation.
In this workshop, you'll meet, or become reacquainted with,
these and a dozen other characters
from the town of Punctuation!
Commas
Wednesday, April 24
Room D-240H
Time:
11:30AM-12:20AM
Isaiah Hemmen will discuss effective ways
to use this oft-abused punctuation mark, and
provide some helpful exercises.
Personal Statements
Monday, May 6
Room C-130 A&B
Time: 12:00 to 1:00PM
This informational session will cover what to
include in your personal statement essays,
what not to discuss, and provide examples
written by successful applicants to UW-Seattle.
Documenting Research in MLA and APA Styles
Tuesday, May 14
Room D-240H
Time: 2:30PM to 3:20PM
In this workshop we will discuss
- Why you must attribute information to its sources in academic writing
- How to effectively integrate source material into your writing
- Formatting and documentation in MLA and APA styles
How to Correct Run-On Sentences
Thursday, May 30
Room D-240H
Time: 5:30-6:20pm
In this workshop, Jane Janssen will guide you through the
various types of run-ons and five methods to revise and correct them.
Workshop Archive
Prewriting
Identifying Your Audience (PowerPoint)
- You will learn:
- Five questions that help you consider your audience, and
- How to use your syllabus to figure out what your instructor wants.
Organizing Your Essay: Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, and Transitions (PowerPoint)
- You will learn:
- The necessary parts of a thesis statement,
- How to write topic sentences, and
- Three methods of transitioning between paragraphs.
Types of Essays
Argumentative Essays (PowerPoint)
- How to write an argument that is a conversation with your audience,
- Templates that have been used in successful academic writing, and
- The necessary parts of an argumentative essay.
Descriptive Essays (PowerPoint)
- Questions to ask yourself before writing a descriptive essay,
- Words to use in a descriptive essay, and
- Words and phrases to avoid in a descriptive essay.
Descriptive Writing (PowerPoint)
- Techniques for improving your descriptions
Editing
Punctuation: Everything, including Commas (PowerPoint)
- Learn how to use various punctuation marks.
- Practice using punctuation in college-level writing.
Punctuation: Just Commas (PowerPoint)
- Identify parts of a sentence that require commas,
- Learn four main comma rules, and
- Correct run-on sentences.
How to Correct Run-on Sentences (PowerPoint)
- Identify run-on sentences, and
- Four main ways to correct run-on sentences.
Articles: A, An, and The (PDF)
In this workshop you will
- Brainstorm how many article rules you already know,
- Identify and practice using articles, and
- Discover the rules are simpler than you may think!
